bgracewood

I’ll add another voice requesting an easy way to specify alternative thumbnail image sizes!

Yah thanks – I just dropped the footer anyway. I’ve got a WP credit in the right-hand navbar, so there’s no point having the footer.
Did some colouration too. I think it looks nicer now.

I like it. A lot. And I’m a kiwi too (Auckland), so I’ve obviously got style. ??

Correction: I’ve realised that a newline before the opening < blockquote > tag will force WP to close the preceeding < p > tag. My Bad.

OK – accept my apologies! I managed to get it to work by putting a new line before the < blockquote > and after the < /blockquote >. I like that it does all the < p > tags correctly now. This feature is kinda hidden though isn’t it?
Thanks guys – sorry for dragging this topic off-topic!

Sorry, I didn’t mean to dredge up an argument. I’m honestly asking if there is a cleaner way to add xhtml-valid < blockquotes > to my posts. Does tcervo’s solution solve this? Should I resort to using a < span > for my blockquotes?

Why not? “Semantic elegance.” Ps define paragraphs, so paragraphs should be put in Ps. A list is a list, a paragraph is a paragraph, etc, etc.

Forgive me if I am wrong, but a wordpress “Post” is not necesarily a paragraph, so I am also of the opinion that enclosing posts in < DIV class=”post” > is more correct than P is it not?
A post could contain a paragraph, at which time the poster can quite happily use P tags. But equally a post could contain an image, or a blockquote or an object even.
I’ve got pretty much the same issue as @dogfood, whereby if I use a blockquote in a bare post, it invalidates the page as xhtml. I have to instead close the built-in < p > tag, then re-open it after the blockquote.

Ok, so I’ve discovered that wordpress wraps the content in < p> tags.
If I close the < p > tag before the < blockquote > then re-open it after, XHTML is happy. This seems a bit of a hack. Is there are way to remove the default < p > tags from the content? Presume I have to hack the wordpress default functions?

Ack! What’s the best way to do an xhtml-compliant < blockquote >?! It complains about ‘not being allowed’, so I presume it’s not a valid tag anymore?
I tried a < span class=”blockquote” > and added margins etc. to the .blockquote css class, but it looks nasty.

Ah thanks guys… the ‘latest searches’ thing buggered up when there was a long url sent from Google. It caused the left nav-bar to grow because IE doesn’t deal with the ‘overflow’ tag properly ?? Removed for the mean time, but I’ll hack the referer plugin to truncate the search terms later.
Thanks for pointing out the <img /> tag thing. I’m still getting used to xHTML unclosed tags!
What do you mean Root? The bottom bar? How do I make that stick to the bottom, rather than live below the content?

Yeah I’ve double checked my time offset and it’s all good (see my test post!).
Good point about the dates. Might look at putting them black-on-white.

Yeah I was just mucking about with the header – all fixed now.
Strange with the calendar! Would that be to do with the server time? It’s on a hosting system who-knows-where, but it’s only 3 hours away from July down here in New Zealand.